mikej

bedirthan, 1 day ago to random

Thought I told both of my D&D groups that I wasn't playing over the long weekend.

Now both DMs have asked if they'll see me Sunday (at the same time).

ai6yr, 2 days ago to random

Santa Barbara Fire PIO: "Vehicle Into Building: 7300 Blk Calle Real, Goleta. Sedan w/two adult males drove through store causing major damage. Driver transported to Goleta Valley ER w/minor injuries. No injuries to customers. Fire personnel assisting with cleanup. Store closed. CT 3:35pm"

***No, that's not a Drive-Through 7-Eleven.

***We need more bollards in the US.

Open air 7-Eleven, where a Subaru has conveniently opened up a bigger entrance to the front of the store.
Photo of the front of a 7-Eleven, where it appears the new open air entrance has attracted a hungry gurney and several firemen, who might (or maybe might not) be interested in a Slurpee
Another view of the inside of the &-Eleven. There's a burgundy and gray Subaru which appears to be chatting with the fireman about getting to the Slurpee machine behind him, but appears to have stopped at the Doritos, after crushing many small animals from some kind of stuffed animal machine.

lauren, 3 days ago to random

All too often I see techies (and clearly I qualify as a techie) who don't seem to give a damn about non-techie users of these systems. So long as there's some techie workaround for privacy-invasive systems ("oh yeah, do this to the URL -- run this extension, do this and that") they don't seem to be concerned at all that the vast majority of people just use systems in their default states and are burned every day by these systems. I've seen this attitude by so many techies my entire career, and if anything it's worse now. This is, by the way, where the term "lusers" for users (commonly heard in the tech community) came from. I find this attitude by this segment of techies to be disgraceful.